Van Ooyen, Andersen and Schmidt all first time winners Sunday night at SRP

Seymour, June 19- For the second straight week, a beautiful day greeted drivers and fans at Seymour Raceway Park Sunday night.

GSR Racing Supplies sponsored the racing action as well as the Kids Club Bike Giveaway.

The Street Stock division opened the feature portion of the program with David Schmidt taking the lead at the start and immediately open a lead on the field.Eric Derks, Clint Evans, Craig Vandewettering and Dylan Stejee were bunched behind.Ashcraft hooked up outside and started to move to the front, moving into the runner up spot on lap 7, but Schmidt had built a sizable lead on the field.A caution on lap 11 erased Schmidt’s advantage and bunched the field behind.Ashcraft was in second with Jeff Jungwirth up into third. Evans, Allan Schluetter and Paul Ambrosius were behind.

Schmidt again took off on the restart with Ashcraft and Jungwirth running side by side for second.A final restart three laps later again saw Schmidt take off while the second place battleremained side by sidebefore Jungwirth was a finally able to take over second with three laps left.Schmidt was able to run to his first ever SRP feature win with Jungirth and Ashcraft next in line. Matt Warner won a tight battle for fourth with Schluetter and Ambrosius rounding out the top six.

The IMCA Sport Mods saw Jessi Ness grab the lead at the start and lead througha pair of early race cautions.On the final restart on lap 8, Scott Besaw was able to wrestle the top spot away with Kevin Bethke, Colten Van Hierden, J.J. Andersen and Lucas Lamberies all in line by lap 10.Van Hierden hooked up on the outside and ran side by side with Besaw and was scored as the leader for a couple laps before dropping off the pace a bit, allowing Besaw to reclaim the top spot on lap 14.Andersen moved into second and was the next challenger, and on lap 20, pulled into the top spot and led the final 5 laps to claim his first SRP feature win.Besaw ran to his best finish here taking second.Travis Arenz made a late race charge to secure third.Bethkefinished in the top 4 with Chris Budzban and Lamberies rounding out the top six.

The Coors Light IMCA Stock Cars brought the final feature of the night to the track with pole sitter, Brandon Gagnon setting the pace early with Trent Nolanmoving into the top spot on lap 3.The pack stayed tight and Travis Springstrohmoved up to challenge and took the lead on lap 10.Travis Van Straten, Chas Van Ooyen, Bob Czarapata and Kyle Frederick were moving up through traffic.There were several cautions in the first half of the rave, but the final restart came a lap 15 and the last half of the race went to the finish.Van Ooyen and Frederick challenged Springstroh after the restart and Van Ooyenmade the move to the inside to take charge on lap lap 16.Frederick followed into second one lap later and the pair took off from the field.By the time Van Straten took third , the leaders had a several car length advantage.With clear track, Van Straten quickly closed the gap and for the final 6 laps, it was a three car dog fight for the win.Van Ooyen was able to hold off the challengers and take the victory with Van Straten making a final lap run to the outside of Frederick to steal the runner up spot away at the finish line.Springstroh finished fourth with Dylan Heilmann and Jeremy Wiitala rounding out the top six.

Next Sunday, the Badger Midgets and Micro 600 sprints will join the three regular divisions on Sunday night.

Then on Sunday July 3, the Budweiser Holiday Classic will take place and feature the only visit for the IRA Sprint Carsfor 2016 when they bring in their 50th Anniversary tour to SRP.The IMCA Modifieds make their first appearance of the season after the Memorial Day program was rain out.The IMCA Sport Mods will be the third division on the 3rd.

Seymour, June 19- It looks like another beautiful night is on the way for a full night of racing at Seymour Raceway Park.

Happy Fathers Day to all out racing dads.

SRP is proud to have GSR Racing Supplies as the nights sponsor, and title sponsor for the Kids Club Bike Give away tonight at intermission.Joining the Kids Club is free and you can register for the bikes and other activites every race night.

This week will feature our three regular divisions.

Running order:

Street Stocks

IMCA Sport Mods

Coors Light IMCA Stock Cars

Pit opens at 3

Grandstand at 4

Racing at 6 PM.

Next week, Sunday June 26,the Badger Midgets and Micro 600 Sprints will join the regular program.The Badger midgets are one of the oldest sanctioning bodies in the country and will be making a rare trek away from their home track in Sun Prairie.This will be a full point event for both divisions.

The Month of July will be a busy one with the kick off being the Budweiser Summer Holiday Classic series on Sunday, July 3rd.With the first race of the series rained out on Memorial Day, the IMCA Modifieds will be running here for the first time in 2016.The event will see the Modifieds running a 30 lap feature with a $2000 pay day.The event will be IMCA sanctioned.

Joining the big event. The IRA Outlaw Sprint Cars will be bringing their 50th Anniversary tour to Seymour Raceway Park for their only appearance in 2016.Their main event will also see 30 of the quickest laps run during the season here.Their last visit back in 2014 saw the feature go flag to flag in just under 8 minutes.

Filling out the evening will be our regular IMCA Sport Mod division running a regular point night.

The July 10th program will see the Grand National Stock Cars join the regular SRP weekly program.It has been a couple years since the division has run here, and should be an exciting night.

The Vintage Milwaukee Stock Car Racing Association will return to SRP on Sunday July 17th.

The WDLMA Late Models will invade the banked 1/3 mile clay oval at SRP on Sunday July 24.Their first appearance was supposed to be on the rained out Memorial Day event as well.This event usually blends the best late model pilots in the area for a great night of racing along with our regular program.

Both the July 3 and 24th programs are part of the Kim Parsons Memorial Trophy Tour to help promote organ and tissue donations, so the BIG trophies will be up for grabs once again.We THANK the tour for their continued support.

The end of July will see the NO racing due to the Annual Outagamie County Fair.

Mark your calendars for all of the excitement every Sunday night at Seymour Raceway Park.We appreciate you choosing to spend part of your weekend racing with us.